Gate-hinge.



A. D- ELLIOTT.

GATE HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-18.1913.

1 ,230,285 Patented June 19, 1917.

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IINITED STATES FATENT anion.

ALEXANDER I). ELLIOTT, OF VIOLA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO GUSTAVE WENZELMANN,

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GATE-HINGE.

Application filed September 18, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER D. EL- LIOTT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Viola, in the county of Warren and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Gate-Hinge, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to that class of swinging gates which are generally known as two-way gates, and which may be selectively swung in either direction from the normal or closed position by an operator seated in a vehicle or mounted on horseback.

The principal. end and object of the invention is to generally improve the construction and increase the capacity, utility and efficiency of the gate over those heretofore existing. Numerous subsidiary objects Will hereinafter appear. Some of these will be obvious, while others will be specifically pointed out.

My invention accordingly consists in various improvements directed more particularly to the hinge elements.

For the purpose of illustrating my inven tion, I have shown in the accompanying drawings that form thereof which is at present preferred by me, together with a modified form of certain of the elements. However, it is to be understood that the several instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and or- I ganized, and that I do not contemplate the scope thereof as limited to either construction shown and described but consider it as covering all such changes as fairly fall within the general idea thereof, considered in its broadest aspect.

In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan;

Fig. 2, an elevation, seen from what I shall for the purposes of this specification herein term the front side;

Fig. 3, an enlarged top plan detail, the pulley having been removed;

Fig. 4, a similar view, the pulley being here shown.

Coming now to a detailed description of the drawings in which the same numeral is uniformly employed to designate the same part in the several figures thereof, 2 designates a supporting post; 3, a latch-post; and 4 and 5, lever-supporting posts. 6 represents an L-shaped hinge member secured to the post 2 and provided with a pintle receiv- Specifieation of Letters Patent.

Patented June 19, 1917.

Serial No. 190,501.

hinge-member, preferably formed from a red, the ends of which are secured in the eyes 11.

13 is a double sheave or pulley having an upper groove 14 and a lower one 15, these grooves being formed in the periphery of an annulus 16 provided with oppositely disposed upper and lower vertically arranged slits 20, 21. This hub is rotatably mounted on the pintle 10. 17 is the sheave hub, provided with a centrally arranged pintle receiving aperture and with slits adapted to register with those in the annulus. The hub and annulus are fitted snugly together and are held even more firmly by the ends of pairs of actuating cables 18, 19, which enter as pairs respectively in the registering slits in the upper and lower portions of said hub and annulus and are frictionally and firmly held thereby on opposite sides thereof. Fixed on the lower face of the hub 17 is a latch-actuating arm 22 having at its free end an eye 23. The outer ends of the pair of cables 18 after being passed backwardly in the groove 14 are secured to the end and median portions of an actuating lever 24 fulcrumed at 25 to the post 5, the points of securement of the cables being on opposite sides of the fulcrum. 26 is a counterweight on the lever 24. The outer ends of the cables 19 after being passed backwardly in the groove 15 are secured to an actuating lever 27 fulcrumed at 28 to the post 4. 29 is a counterweight.

3O designates a gate body, preferably comprising slats 31 spaced from each other by the usual standards 32, 33, 34 and 35 arranged in pairs on opposite sides thereof and united to said slats by the usual securing means 36. 37 is a latch-bar, slidably mounted preferably between the three outer pairs of standards and on the central slat.

38 is a plate secured on the upper gateslat and provided at its rear portion with a ing arm 22 and the ends of which after being. passed respectively through the eyes 13 are engaged with the bar 37 on opposite sides thereof as indicatedin Figs. 1 and 2.

4:5 is a plate secured to the post 2, and 4:6 is a latch plate suitably secured thereon. These may be of any suitable character and do not concern my invention. 47 is an ordinary stop post.

48 is a bell-crank couterweight lever fulcrumed at 4:9 to an upper gate-slat and having the point of its vertical arm pivoted to the rear end of the latch-bar. The weight of its horizontal arm will automatically throw and hold the latch-bar in projected or latching position while the hand levers are idle. 50 is a pin for limiting the forward movement of the latch-bar. 50, 50 designate guide blocks.

When the pins 39-40 have reached the triangular position (with reference to the rectangular hinge member 12) shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the free end of the gate will be slightly elevated and its gravity w1ll carry it to either a fully opened or fully closed position, this being dependent upon which side of the central position the gate occupied when force was relieved thereon, and further dependent upon the momentum of the gate. The rising and falling movement of the free end of the gate is occasioned as follows: When both pins, 39 and 10, are in contact with the front or cross-bar of the hinge-member 12, as shown by full lines in Fig. 3, or both in contact with either one of the side-bars thereof, as shown by the dotted lines at right angles to the said full line position, the plate 38 and thereby the top of the gate-body are at the greatest possible distance from the central point or pintlev 10, (which is not, however, the gate pintle, but merely and only a pivot on which the sheave 17 rotates) and when said pins are in contact one with a side-bar and one with the cross-bar of said hinge-member 12, as shown by the obliquely drawn dotted line position in said Fig. 3, the rear edge of the plate 38 and thereby the rear end of the upper portion of the gate body will be much closer to said center, and the front end of the gate will be elevated, for the lower pintle, 60, is fixed and acts as a fulcrum. It will be noted that in the oblique position of the gate in Fig. 3 the rear edge of the plate 38 lies in a vertical plane substantially parallel with the pintle 10.

I claim as my invention:

1. In combination, a hinge-member provided with a horizontally arranged way which is substantially in the shape of three sides of a square, and a hinge-member having pins adapted to travel in said way.

2. In combination, a hinge-member comprising a horizontally arranged plate and a rod surrounding three sides thereof and spaced therefrom whereby to provide a nonarcuate way, and a hingemember having pins adapted to travel in said way.

In witness whereof, I hereto sign my name, this 12th day of September, 1913, at Viola, Mercer county, Illinois, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALEXANDER D. ELLIOTT.

Witnesses:

S. C. FUGATE. WALTER MILES.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C. 

